cultivate
verb🔊/ˈkʌltɪveɪt/
🔊/ˈkʌltɪveɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they cultivate | 🔊/ˈkʌltɪveɪt/ 🔊/ˈkʌltɪveɪt/ |
| he / she / it cultivates | 🔊/ˈkʌltɪveɪts/ 🔊/ˈkʌltɪveɪts/ |
| past simple cultivated | 🔊/ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/ |
| past participle cultivated | 🔊/ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form cultivating | 🔊/ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪŋ/ |
- cultivate something
to prepare and use land for growing plants or crops 耕；耕作 The land around here has never been cultivated. 这一带的土地从未开垦过。 🔊🔊 The land here has been intensively cultivated for generations. 这片土地经过了几代人的精耕细作。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- intensively
- cultivate something
to grow plants or crops 种植；栽培；培育 The people cultivate mainly rice and beans. 这里的人们主要种植水稻和豆类。 🔊🔊 Olives have been cultivated successfully in southern Australia. 橄榄树已在南澳大利亚栽培成功。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- widely
- successfully
- cultivate somebody/something (sometimes disapproving)
to try to get somebody’s friendship or support 建立（友谊）；结交（朋友）；获得（支持） He purposely tried to cultivate good relations with the press. 他特意设法与新闻界搞好关系。 🔊🔊 It helps if you go out of your way to cultivate the local people. 主动结交当地人大有好处。 🔊🔊
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- actively
- assiduously
- carefully
- …
- cultivate something
to develop an attitude, a way of talking or behaving, etc. 逐渐形成（某种态度、谈话或举止方式等） She cultivated an air of sophistication. 她养成了一派精明练达的气度。 🔊🔊 This modern image is actively cultivated by the company. 公司积极塑造其现代形象。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- actively
- assiduously
- carefully
- …
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin cultivat- ‘prepared for crops’, from the verb cultivare, from cultiva (terra) ‘arable (land)’, from colere ‘cultivate, inhabit’.